Chiho Aoshima evokes the stylistic conventions of 18th-century Japanese scroll painting in creating her large-scale digital prints. Her fantastical landscapes populated by alien wildlife and children with saucer eyes, represent both utopian and apocalyptic visions. City Glow, Aoshima’s first animation work, is a natural extension of her illustration-based practice. Over the course of the work’s seven-minute cycle, a universe unfolds across five wall-mounted plasma screens, enveloping the viewer in an urban nighttime scene dense with willowy anthropomorphic office towers and jungle foliage and populated with nymphs and other fantastical creatures.